Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned on Friday after denouncing chaos in the West Wing and telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of the New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.

After offering Mr. Scaramucci the communications job Friday morning, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Spicer to stay on as press secretary. But Mr. Spicer told Mr. Trump that he believed the appointment of Mr. Scaramucci was a major mistake and said he was resigning, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange.

In one of his first official acts, Mr. Scaramucci, who founded the global investment firm SkyBridge Capital and is a Fox News contributor, joined Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Mr. Spicer’s chief deputy, in the White House briefing room and announced that she would succeed Mr. Spicer as press secretary.

Mr. Spicer’s rumored departure has been one of the longest-running internal sagas in an administration brimming with dissension and intrigue. A former Republican National Committee spokesman and strategist, Mr. Spicer was a frequent target of the president’s ire — and correctives — during the first few months of the administration.

He was also weary of the daily dressings-down and instituted the highly contentious practice of holding off-air briefings, less so to snub reporters than to avoid Mr. Trump’s critiques of his performance, according to one of Mr. Spicer’s friends.

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As a former Republican party strategist/communicator, Spicer was doomed from the start. Neither party wanted Trump, for the simple reason that he’s not part of the machine that lives by selling our representation to the highest bidder.

Trump is learning that neither party will ever cooperate with anyone who won’t take the dirty money. He needs like minded people from outside politics. There aren’t many in DC. The Trump family, Bannon and maybe Scaramonga are likely it. Sessions is a big fail in that regard. He’d rather slit his mother’s throat than prosecute a Clinton for jay walking.

The media has ceased all pretense of being unbiased or neutral, so having a “press secretary” is rather ridiculous in itself.

The President (Trump or anyone else) is supposed to communicate with **ALL** citizens, not just the arrogant few with press passes — the media forgets that all too often. The media is simply a means to an end (communicating with all citizens), it is not an end in itself.

The media needs a spectacle to pump up their falling ratings, and the masses who are “cutting the cord” (getting rid of cable TV). CNN admitted that their entire “russia-gate” nonsense has zero substance and is 100% a ratings ploy. Trump needs to remember that his support base is almost entirely outside the Washington DC beltway.

And all of us, especially the folks who did not vote for Trump, need to remember that you are and (presumably) will be living in the USA four years / eight years from now. You should wish Trump success purely out of your own self interest — if you burn the country down just to spite Trump, he still gets a presidential pension, while the rest of us would have to live in the ashes and ruins.

Don’t be stupid and destroy the country in your spite against Trump. If the establishment (either party) had come up with a candidate that didn’t make voters vomit , then Trump wouldn’t have been elected. It was a complete and total failure of both political parties.

Time to make the best of the hand we were dealt, and stop acting like babies throwing temper tantrums. Support Trump, if for no other reason than you will be stuck with the outcome whether you mess your diapers or not.

As for Spicer… we need a white house press secretary about as much as we need a white house buggy whip wrangler. It was an important position years ago, not anymore

“Don’t be stupid and destroy the country in your spite against Trump.”

I’m not worried about my stupidity, it has a fairly low impact on America.

I’m worried about the stupidity of the person who lies constantly but thinks he can be President of this country.

But I’m more worried about the stupidity of people who can’t see how much of a clown show we have in the White House and are enabling this idiot instead of forcing him to do his job properly.

And I’m really worried about the stupidity of people who think that Russia’s interference can’t be real because the media reported it, and you can only trust the White House and not the media.

I’m also more worried about the stupidity of people who go along with attacks on good Americans like Robert Mueller because their orange idol wants them to, just in case there is something there, so they can trot out the line that Mueller is lying because he is biased.

How can Trump “do his job” IF that means getting ANYTHING done in Congress when Congress will not send him a Bill to sign. He’s asked for it – said he’ll signs it – but Congress is NOT doing THEIR job …

Russia…still? It’s been nearly a year on Russia – NOTHING has come of it. Maybe it’s there – maybe not….but we KNOW Hillary and Bill did the Russia thing – Hillary approving 20% of our good radioactive stuff to be sold to Russia – AFTER Bill was paid $500,000 for one speech to Russians……hmmmm….THAT is not questionable….

Mueller? Well, the peeps he has hired used to WORK FOR HILLARY AND BILL….naaahhhhh…no problem there. and gave lotsa $$ to her – but THAT is not a problem in itself. Just having the Clintons as some of their former clients steeenks to hi-heaven….

“How can Trump “do his job” IF that means getting ANYTHING done in Congress”

OK, you do know that the President’s own party has majorities in both houses?

Just checking.

As I’ve repeatedly said, we have a respected lawman on the case, so if there is something real, Mueller will find it, if anybody can. So let’s be patient and watch the people who are trying to discredit an American who has shown exemplary patriotism all his life.

The Russia special persecutor’s Inquisition/Witch Hunt is a DNC-financed campaign 2016 relic, now enshrined permanently in the Deep State and extended indefinitely at taxpayer/public expense with no input whatsoever from elected officials (aside from Schumer and Democrat Senators meeting secretly with DOJ to get the Witch Hunt onto the government payroll). Schumer and his allies in the Deep State deserve a special banquet and the Lenin Award for Subversive Achievement.

Curiously, unlike “real” criminal investigations, there is no criminal statute or law being violated here. Collusion between a campaign and a foreign country does not violate any criminal codes, and is something for voters to decide (approval or not) at the ballot box. In Nov. 2016, voters via the electoral college rendered their verdict in support of Trump bringing the USA and Russia closer together. Big foreign collusion “cognitive dissonance” here: Hillary and DNC colluded with both Ukraine and UK intelligence operatives to produce the Russia dossier used against Trump in campaign 2016. Hillary and Trump also colluded as much as possible with Israeli operatives against each other, and who knows how many other foreign countries. Additional special persecutors are need to: 1) keep Trump’s campaign promise to put Hillary in jail, in the name of fairness and reciprocity; 2) an investigation into how Schumer and Democrat Senators “influenced and colluded” with DOJ to get Mueller appointed special persecutor, whether Comey was secretly granted special immunity and coached by Mueller to lie with impunity and violate federal law in a partisan effort to “get” Trump, etc. Another special persecutor with another mandate is needed to investigate the current special persecutor, who should not be above the law.

On the other hand, 2. would explain the establishment of hierarchical blind authority built on institutionalised make-believe, punishment and reward, which would explain 1. and the creeping domination of government over private by its (non constructive) efficacy and through destabilisation of the latter. Flexible order by contrast is adaptive and has no pretense except the direct understanding of the individual to a confined circumstance within a social reality that is self evident, rather than imposed as an ideal as per subversion of majority politics.

But whatever, however my experience of private organisation is that it gets unwanted interference and is rarely allowed to flourish without getting subsumed by outside authority at some point, and its essence disarticulated or auctioned.

Yes, I know government and non-profits from personal experience, and have nothing against them per se, although they sometimes go astray and become corrupted. If I lost you at “deep state,” then you need to learn to search the Internet and educate yourself. Not that difficult. The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, WSJ, The Hill, HuffPo and the rest of the mainstream media and alternative media use the term “Deep State” with great regularity as shorthand for “the government bureaucracy working behind the scenes.” Has nothing to do with secrecy or climate per se. FYI: a link to an article in today’s “The Hill,” a very mainstream source you may recognize from Mish quotes. “Deep State” is in article title, and explained in first paragraph:

In the past year, the term “Deep State” has become part of our lexicon, describing the gradual erosion of constitutional government and the rise of government by the administrative state, which means the unelected. There is no better example than the Treasury Department’s fine of ExxonMobil for violating sanctions on Russia…

“And I’m really worried about the stupidity of people who think that Russia’s interference can’t be real because the media reported it, and you can only trust the White House and not the media.”

I am worried that all this fake anti Russian hysteria will result in a preemptive nuclear first strike against the U.S.

The U.S. MSM interfered in our election. Our own media, which we are supposed to be able trust, were democratic party operatives, not objective news reporters.

The real question is, who wasn’t interfering, not whether Russia was.
Western European leaders were interfering, just as the Russians were. Ukraine just got caught in collusion to benefit Hillary.

Hillary was the reason she lost the election. Not even the entire MSM complex interfering on her behalf, prevented her from losing. Not even the U.S. government, interfering on her behalf, prevented her from losing.
Not even Republican party establishment members interfering on her behalf, prevented her from losing.

I think President Trump is doing an awesome job. Maybe the best President ever… He’s a capitalist, non-establishment person who is Making America Great Again. The best part is – if you are not happy – you are free to leave.

RE: Firing the VA peeps. Those who fraudulently erased waiting lists to make themselves – or their bosses look better – and cause Vet’s to NOT get medical care should be arrested and JAILED. What they did was CRIMINAL< DANGEROUS< AND PERHAPS FATAL to our Vets. Hang the guilty bastards…..

Scaramucci might just be the guy that puts the horses head in SNL’s bed. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a particular talent of not giving the media any material either. Look like the perfect combo for Trump.

Trump should change the press pool rules (which are arbitrary and decided by the White House). No more seniority or allowing the media to decide who sits up front or who gets a question. Seating will be “random”, with favoritism going to media outlets that haven’t received the best spots in the past. Nothing would crush the media pundits egos more than losing their “privileged” access to the halls of power.

Make all of them submit to invasive searches of both person and belongings — just like airplane travelers. Confiscate any notes that are written in code (it might be terrorism!). And use anything not in code to identify the leaks. There is no legal right to enter White House grounds, and any media that don’t like it don’t need to attend press conferences.

Time to treat the arrogant media with the same TSA nuisance as the taxpayers who make Washington DC’s lifestyle possible

Every morning he had to defend his boss against vile lies and fabrications that emanated from fake news. One false conspiracy after another. I would have had a laugh box with me at the podium and played it every time one of the establishment media harlots asked me another asinine tin foil hat question.

It’s obvious now what’s going on. Mueller is a hired gun for the establishment swamp dwellers. He can’t find any dirt on Trump connected to Russia so Mueller opened up the investigation into Trump’s finances for the last decade to look for any trace of malfeasance. ha. That’s like shooting fish in a barrel. If they did the same to any other American billionaire ya think they might find a little mischief here and there?

My guess is that Mueller will come up with something totally unrelated to the original allegations and blow it completely out of proportion. He directive from the swamp dwellers was to bring Trump down by hook or by crook.

Had Trump been involved in any one of the major 7 scandals we saw under Obama they would have crucified him for it.

What a dirty country we’ve evolved into. Democracy is all but dead. The elites weren’t able to rig the election – but by God, they’ll still get what they want in the end.

I think it will end in a whimper, and it will be a complete waste of millions (if not billions) of tax dollars.

Agree with you the swamp rats *want* to remove Trump by any means legal or not — but they have to be careful about the legal precedent they set.

Once you remove one president by frivolous means, every other president the swamp rats try to elect will be subject to the same treatment.

Trump is a real estate developer, not a boy scout. He has been dealing with the corruption of NYC for decades. There is no way for any NYC government to do anything against him without taking themselves down in the process.

Similar situation in Washington. They can’t take Trump down without taking themselves down at the same time. If anything, Congress has a lot more skeletons in the closet than Trump.

Meanwhile, the fiscal situation of Washington is deteriorating FAST. That is DC’s bread and butter (literally). They can’t materially raise taxes without damaging the economy. They can’t lower spending without alienating the welfare class. They can’t reduce military spending without putting millions of government bureaucrats out of work. And they can’t reduce old age spending without losing the old age vote. They are screwed if they do, and screwed if they don’t.

Trump bashing is bread and circus — intended to distract the lesser minded from the debacle Washington got itself into.

Another special persecutor is needed in the name of fairness and reciprocity to make good on Trump’s campaign promise to put Hillary behind bars, and to investigate how Schumer and the Dem Senators colluded with Deep State DOJ operatives to create a special mandate to extend campaign 2016 indefinitely at taxpayer expense. Heard on the news that Comey was coached in rehearsals by Mueller prior to Senate testimony, and that Comey was secretly promised immunity for abuses of power and crimes as FBI director. Clearly Mueller’s office should not be above the law and beyond elected control, as is the case now. Trump and Russia are not the problem. Schumer and Mueller’s office (not Mueller personally) in collusion are the real threat to the tenuous remaining threads of USA democracy, and this requires another special persecutor now.

Can’t wait for Spicer’s “tell all” book about what is going on in the disaster area that we used to call the White House.

I expect that Spicer will become as popular as Mueller in certain circles (including the hook, line, and sinker crowd round here – we know who you are) once he spills the beans on just how incompetent and untruthful 45 is.

When the MSM finally got hold of a Trump tax return, it revealed he was paying around 25%, almost double what Sanders, Obama and even Romney were paying. I was LMAO for a week on that one because I just saw it coming a mile away and the forever clueless MSM walked right into it.

The fallout from that witch hunt was a deafening silence rarely ever before witnessed in the District of Columbia. It was bigly unbelievable.

Now then, when are we going to get the long overdue audit of The Clinton Foundation? Will it be before or after Sanders wife is indicted for bank fraud?

To the rest of the world it looks like drama, the American way…this sort of turnaround and worse is going on in most countries . As Americans you are going to sense it more closely, and people who prefer a steady face to government even more so, others will play it up, like the NYT above…same abroad.

As outside observer, the only point that I really note is this – many look to the US for example, or recognise its influence and are attentive to the mood/presentation of government, so changes introduce an uncertainty and an expectation… and in this case it seems like it is going to tighten up act. The slightly improvised approach so far, which was in some way closer, is likely to be replaced with a more direct, but less accessible , management, more convincing but less revealing. It will be interesting to watch if Trump keeps his own informal approach ( I expect he will) … if he does not then that is going to be indicator to what influence is working its way through.

Obviously I am guessing as much as the next person as to how it will shape up, but that is how it seems from one person abroad.

Currency trader don’t like Trump – dollar goes weaker against Euro. No Obamacare victory – no tax cuts for the rich. Or more debt and that from a repub LOL
Too bad my European vacations will become more expensive.

Roger still believes brains matter in Washington. It’s a noble thought, I suppose, but it’s Trump’s LACK of political savvy that will ultimately serve him best. The people already know he hasn’t got the smarts to lie his way out of things, so he goes full steam ahead.

The Dems and lazy comedy writers have nothing except the constant Russian BS and people are going to get really tired of these endless “nothingburgers” by 2018. Many are even now. I seriously hope they keep this BS up and they will because that’s all they’ve got. Even the dumbest and most biased voters may eventually realize the extreme bias of the media.

Broke And Bleeding Cash, DNC Ends June $3.3 Million In Debt

“After spending a truly obscene amount of money on the Georgia special election last month, money that was proven to be completely wasted after Jon Ossoff was destroyed by Karen Handel, the DNC’s balance sheet is looking a little deflated.”

The Donald is just another faux conservative used by the elites to achieve their goals. He didn’t become a repub until 2010. He’s always been somewhat libertarian on money/economics but he’s an out and out progressive. Always was. Sure he donated to both parties but he probably also donated to the mafia in NYC.

Crony corporations own both parties and there is no point in voting. Get ready for the war. Most will die.

I think President Trump is doing an awesome job. Maybe the best President ever… He’s a capitalist, non-establishment person who is Making America Great Again. The best part is – if you are not happy – you are free to leave.,

Obama surrounded himself with yes men, trump surrounds himself with strong personalities with diverse opinions. Trump is used to this and as a result people come and go when strong personalities clash. The best way to get good advice is to surround yourself with people who speak their mind and argue their points.

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